Creative Classroom

with Crystal River Elementary School students

Creative Classroom provides free after school art to students in grades 1 through 4 from Crystal River Elementary School. There are 3 8-week sessions each year. Each of the 3 sessions is open to a different grade at CRES and students can sign up for the program through the school’s art teacher. The Creative Classroom sessions have featured everything from drawing and collage studies with “walkabout drawing adventures” to creating clay tiles the Third Street Center Mural Project.

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About Us

Carbondale Arts, formerly the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities (CCAH), is a hub of artistic activity and expression. Our core values, since our inception, are creativity, community, and volunteerism. Through the promotion of the arts, artists, arts education, cultural activities and events, Carbondale Arts has been instrumental in forming Carbondale's unique identity as an arts & culture hot spot in the Rockies. Carbondale Arts believes collaboration with state and local governments, schools, artists, business and other nonprofits are the key to building community through art.